www.GlennBecksBookList.com -- Click Here for the book 1984 www.amzn.to Glenn Beck talks a lot about "1984" and we can see the story inching itself into our lives. Enjoy this early adaptation from 1954/6 on BBC TV. "Nineteen Eighty-Four (first published in 1949) by George Orwell is a dystopian novel about Oceania, a society ruled by the oligarchical dictatorship of the Party. Life in the Oceanian province of Airstrip One is a world of perpetual war, pervasive government surveillance, and incessant public mind control, accomplished with a political system euphemistically named English Socialism (Ingsoc), which is administered by a privileged Inner Party elite. Yet they too are subordinated to the totalitarian cult of personality of Big Brother, the deified Party leader who rules with a philosophy that decries individuality and reason as thoughtcrimes; thus the people of Oceania are subordinated to a supposed collective greater good. The protagonist, Winston Smith, is a member ! of the Outer Party who works for the Ministry of Truth (Minitrue), which is responsible for propaganda and historical revisionism. His job is to re-write past newspaper articles so that the historical record is congruent with the current party ideology. Because of the childhood trauma of the destruction of his family â€" the disappearances of his parents and sister â€" Winston Smith secretly hates the Party, and dreams of rebellion against Big Brother. As literary political fiction and as dystopian science ...
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